On 24-Aug-2001 Chris Tillman wrote: >> Hi everybody, >> >> Could someone help me for the following problem, please? >> >> I am a system administrator in a University and I tried to install Debian >> PPC (potato and woody) on some Performa 6400... the installation went >> relatively well with the potato boot floppies, but I have been unable to >> make it boot from the harddrive. >> I would like to use quik and not BootX since I don't want to let MacOS >> available on them. >> >> I have tried any possible configuration or trick from a lot of >> documentation sources: >> http://penguinppc.org/usr/quik >> http://penguinppc.org/usr/quik/quirks.shtml >> http://lppcfom.sourceforge.net/ >> etc... >> >> (the Open Firmware on Performa 6400 is 2.0) > > I have the same OF version on my PowerBase clone, FWIW >
and do you use quik to boot? >> >> Some people reported success making it boot (but maybe not with quik). >> >> I saw that I should change load-base to 100000, keep input-device and >> output-device >> to ttya, I removed the modem to see if it would change something, I upgraded >> to woody to have a newer version of quik... > > For Debian, I haven't seen any docs recommending a load-base change, in fact > I think I recall that was not recommended. As far as input-device and > output-device, the NetBSD page offers: for load-base, I saw this on: http://penguinppc.org/usr/quik/quirks.shtml and in various comments on http://lppcfom.sourceforge.net/ but I will try again without changing it. > > ---- http://www.netbsd.org/Ports/macppc/models.html > > Open Firmware output-device defaults to ttya, but ttya is the internal > modem (if installed). Thus, if you have an internal modem, use Boot > Variables to set console to ttyb. > ---- ok, I will try with ttyb. > > I believe it would not make a difference whether the modem was actually > there or not. The above advice is in regards to being able to see the Open > Firmware command line. It also mentions: > > ---- http://www.netbsd.org/Ports/macppc/models.html > > NetBSD may not boot if screen/kbd are used (use ttya or ttyb for your > console) > ---- > > That would mean hooking up another computer to a serial port to be able to > see the OF command line. > > But, quik would prevent you from having to do any of that if it was working > on your machine. Which version of quik and boot-floppies are you using? I > think Ethan did some work last month on it, though I can't locate it in CVS > to check. I used quik from potato (I can't find the version it was), and quik 2.0e-0.5 from woody (it seems to be the last version). > >> ----- mac-fdisk ---------------- >> [...] > Since you've evicted MacOS, you can also get rid of the driver and patch > partitions. But that wouldn't cause this problem I don't think. exact. I installed Linux on another one of this same powermac model, but without these paritions and the result is exactly the same. > >> >> ----- of variables ------------- >> nvsetenv load-base 0x100000 >> nvsetenv boot-device "ata/[EMAIL PROTECTED]:0" >> nvsetenv boot-file "ata/[EMAIL PROTECTED]:6/boot/vmlinux-2.2.19 >> root=/dev/hda6" >> -------------------------------- >> > > Maybe try nvsetenv (no parameters)? This will show all the nvram settings. > Then see what they are after quik runs? Yes, I wrote the three lines above just to show how I change the variables but I often use nvsetenv without parameters to see the settings state and to experiment. And you think it is possible that quik change them? I didn't know that. I will take a look. > If you have another untouched > machine, maybe boot the installer there just to see what the virgin settings > are like? yes, I know what they are like. I change just the three above (load-base, boot-device, boot-file) because the other ones do not seem usefull in my problem (althought I made a lot of tests with them before, with the boot-prompt activated). thanks a lot for your time. I will continue to make some test and I will inform you if it works. > *----------------------------------------------------------------* >| .''`. | Debian GNU/Linux: <http://www.debian.org> | >| : :' : | debian-imac: <http://debian-imac.sourceforge.net> | >| `. `'` | . oo Chris Tillman | >| `- | ( -) [EMAIL PROTECTED] | > *----------------"--"--------------------------------------------*
